Have you ever noticed the preparation test textbooks never reveal the inside secrets for passing your ESL test (TOEFL, TESL, IELTS, TOEIC)? You just buy the books and hope to understand the exercises in vain. The majority of the time you get the same old advice, “develop a positive attitude, visualize, the best study plan, practice, review, read, read and read some more, etc…” and the list goes on. There is nothing wrong with these advise. They are perfectly okay.
Unfortunately, these books don’t really show you how to go about passing the tests. Most of the time you struggled to find the right answers to the questions by lucky chances in the preparation textbooks. So you take the test and don’t pass. So what do you do next? You go and buy other preparation test textbooks with the hope that the examples and exercises will be much better than the last book.
Why do these educators don’t want to teach you the TRUTH, the well kept secrets for passing these tests? If they do, then they will be out of business selling preparation test textbooks. And sometime, ESL teachers don't know how to beginn showing students the way. They just go by the text book - from sentence to sentence. Go to www.powertutorials-on-skype.com to learn about reading technique skills for TOEFL. Of course, this example below is somewhat of a shorter version of what I tutor to ESL students._________________english fluency (www.powertutorials-on-skype.com)

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Specific Guessing Techniques

Slang
Scientific sounding answers are better than slang ones. In the answer choices below, choice B is much less scientific and is incorrect, while choice A is a scientific analytical choice and is correct.

Example:
A.) To compare the outcomes of the two different kinds of treatment.
B.) Because some subjects insisted on getting one or the other of the treatments.

Extreme Statements
Avoid wild answers that throw out highly controversial ideas that are proclaimed as established fact. Choice A is a radical idea and is incorrect. Choice B is a calm rational statement. Notice that Choice B does not make a definitive, uncompromising stance, using a hedge word “if” to provide wiggle room.

Example:
A.) Bypass surgery should be discontinued completely.
B.) Medication should be used instead of surgery for patients who have not had a heart attack if they suffer from mild chest pain and mild coronary artery blockage.

Similar Answer Choices
When you have two answer choices that are direct opposites, one of them is usually the correct answer.

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A.) Paragraph 1 described the author’s reasoning about the influence of his childhood on his adult life.
B.) Paragraph 2 described the author’s reasoning about the influence of his childhood during his adult life._________________english fluency (www.powertutorials-on-skype.com)

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In TOEFL, IELTS, TEFL or any other ESL essay writing, you will be judged (this will effect your score drastically) on how well you have organized your composition. Essays or compositions that are incoherent, confused and disjointed will receive very poor scoring. Below is the basic foundation for essay writing. However writing a compelling essay is the cream-of-the-crop and well sought after techniques. A boring essay only scores an average point. Learn with powertutorials-on-skype.com the powerful secrets how to master compelling essay writing and score the top marks. There is more to just writing one paragraph after another. The reading is in the words.

Essay Organization
An essay or composition is a collection of paragraphs that cover one particular topic.
The organization of an essay is essentially the same as a paragraph. It contains an introduction, just as a paragraph contains a topic sentence. The introductory paragraph lets the reader know what the essay will be about. An essay has body paragraphs, which develop the topic stated in the introduction, in the same way that supporting sentences develop the topic sentence in a paragraph.
The body paragraphs, usually the longest part of the essay, contain support for the thesis statement. An essay contains a concluding paragraph, just as a paragraph contains a concluding sentence.
The concluding paragraph summarizes the information in the essay or may contain the writer’s opinion or prediction of the topic.
For an essay, a topic sentence and a concluding sentence may be not needed for all paragraphs. If the thesis statement contains a predictor, it will clearly show what the topic of the paragraphs will be. Even if no topic sentence is used, the writer still needs to have good transition and unity to tie the paragraphs together cohesively.

The Introduction
There are two primary functions of the introductory paragraph: 1) to indicate what the essay will be about and 2) to attract the attention of the reader.
The introduction may include making an initial general statement and narrowing it down to the thesis statement or explaining the importance of the topic. In addition, the introduction may provide the reader with background information, set the limits of the discussion, or to clarify the meaning of words. Without an introduction the essays begins too abruptly and may cause confusion for the reader.

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The topic of the essay is contained in the thesis statement. The thesis statement is the most important sentence in an essay, just as the topic sentence is the most important sentence in a paragraph. The thesis statement is similar to the topic sentence and serves the same function in an essay as the topic sentences does for the paragraph. It tells what the essay is about, just as the topic sentence tells the reader what the paragraph is about. The thesis statement is the last sentence in the introductory paragraph. It lets the reader know what will be discussed in the remaining paragraphs and expresses the opinion or point-of-view of the writer.
It contains the same components as the topic sentence. It contains the topic, a controlling idea, and opinion or point-of-view. The topic is what the essay will be about. The controlling idea is what will be said about the topic. There can only be one controlling idea in the thesis statement. The thesis statement must also contain an opinion. If the thesis statement contains a fact, i t cannot be supported and the writer cannot write an essay about it.

Thesis statements may also have additional characteristics. The thesis statement indicates the central purpose for the essay and controls
the essay. It gives a plan for the essay and the essay must follow that plan. The thesis statement may indicate how many paragraphs the essay will be, the organization of the essay, and the content of each paragraph.
For example, in the thesis statement. The primary causes for the gradual collapse of the British Empire were political differences, economic factors, and geographic distance., one paragraph each will be devoted to explaining the three causes of the collapse: political differences, economic factors, and geographic distance.
The order of the ideas presented in the body paragraphs must match the order indicated in the thesis statement. In the above example, the first body paragraph must be about political differences, the second paragraph must be about economic factors, and the third must be about geographic distance.

When writing thesis statements keep in mind these simple rules:
1) it must be a statement, not a question
2) it must be complete sentence
3) it must be an opinion, not a fact
4) it must have one, and only one, a controlling idea
5) it must state the writer’s position on the topic

Look at the following thesis statements. Place an X in the
space provided if it is an ineffective thesis statement. If the statement
is an effective thesis statement leave the space blank. If
the statement is ineffective as a thesis statement, indicate in the
line under the statement what it is lacking: does it lack a topic, a
controlling idea, or an opinion.

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